Allens Creek, IU 15114-4000, Edwardsville Fm., Monroe Co., IN (Carboniferous of the United States)

Also known as Skeletal carbonate bank facies; monobathrid-disparid community

Where: Monroe County, Indiana (39.0° N, 86.5° W: paleocoordinates 18.8° S, 32.9° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Edwardsville Formation, Chadian (346.7 - 340.0 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; lithified grainstone and siltstone

• This is a carbonate bank located on a subaqueous delta platform. Siltstone surrounds the bank, and can be found interspersed within the bank itself.

Collection methods: bulk, chemical, mechanical, sieve

Primary reference: W. I. Ausich. 1978. Community Organization, Paleontology, and Sedimentology of the Lower Mississippian Borden Delta Platform (Edwardsville Formation, Southern Indiana). Unpublished Doctoral Dissertation, Indiana University 1-433 [A. Miller/A. Webber/A. Clement]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 2249: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Andrew Webber on 29.06.1999

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• The fauna from this locality are part of the carboante bank community of Ausich, Kammer, and Lane, 1979. See reference number 558. This has also been termed the monobathrid-disparid community by the author. Total numeric abundance is 81924. Total biovolume abundance is 23.2963.
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Foraminifera
 Ammodiscoidea - Ammodiscidae
Ammodiscus sp.
Ammodiscus sp. Reuss 1862
 Astrorhizacea - Psammosphaeridae
Thuramminoides sp., Pseudastrorhiza sp.
Thuramminoides sp. Plummer 1945
Tubothalamea
 Miliolida - Cornuspiridae
Trepeilopsis sp.
Crinoidea
  -
Crinoidea indet.
Crinoidea indet. Miller 1821 Sea lily
Brachiopoda
  -
Brachiopoda indet.
Brachiopoda indet. Cuvier 1805
Stenolaemata
 Fenestrata -
Fenestrata indet.
Fenestrata indet. Elias and Condra 1957
unclassified
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Porifera indet.
Porifera indet. Grant 1836
"indet. spicules" - originally entered as "Porifera indet. spicules"